THEA 3040 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS.
This theatre was the first formal black theatre company in America, was
founded in the season of 1820-1821 by William Brown and James
Hewlett, and likely produced the first play both written and performed by
African Americans.
African Grove Theatre
This member of the Comédie-Française was renowned for her legendary
eccentricities, temperament, and golden voice.
Sarah Bernhardt
Wilhelm Richard Wagner's concept of gesamtkunstwerk is best translated
as
"master work"
Which of the following was NOT a way that Wagner increased the illusion
of the stage?
Building treadmills into the stage for horse races.
This member of the Comédie-Française foreshadowed realism acting of the
twentieth century with her natural and believable understated methods
that projected sincerity.
Eleonora Duse
Edwin Booth is significant in theatre history in part because
he used uncorrupted texts of Shakespeare's plays many years before the
English.
He is considered one of the first modern directors because he rehearsed his
actors with scenery and costumes for extensive periods of time, created
intricately planned crowd scenes with paid actors, and produced
historically accurate and practical settings.
, Georg II, duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Which of the following was NOT one of the revolutionary innovations of
Edwin Booth's Theatre?
it had a raked stage for wing-and-shutter scenery
Artists reacted to the radical transformation of Western society between
1875 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914 by attempting to put
realistic, everyday life onstage, and never putting illusionistic, abstract
ideas onstage.
False
Many theatregoers and critics were scandalized by realism in the theatre
because
the movement presented taboo topics such as venereal disease.
Because there were both legal and commercial barriers to producing
realistic and naturalistic drama, artists turned to
subscription companies
Motivated lighting is
illumination of the stage picture that seems to come from actual onstage
sources.
This playwright, sometime called the founder of modern realism, was
known for his early mythological plays, middle-class social-issue plays,
and late symbolist plays.
Henrik Ibsen
This playwright was a theatre critic, condemned the stale commercial
theatre of the time, wrote long prefaces discussing issues in his plays as
well as stage directions, and was known for his humor.
George Bernard Shaw
CORRECT ANSWERS.
This theatre was the first formal black theatre company in America, was
founded in the season of 1820-1821 by William Brown and James
Hewlett, and likely produced the first play both written and performed by
African Americans.
African Grove Theatre
This member of the Comédie-Française was renowned for her legendary
eccentricities, temperament, and golden voice.
Sarah Bernhardt
Wilhelm Richard Wagner's concept of gesamtkunstwerk is best translated
as
"master work"
Which of the following was NOT a way that Wagner increased the illusion
of the stage?
Building treadmills into the stage for horse races.
This member of the Comédie-Française foreshadowed realism acting of the
twentieth century with her natural and believable understated methods
that projected sincerity.
Eleonora Duse
Edwin Booth is significant in theatre history in part because
he used uncorrupted texts of Shakespeare's plays many years before the
English.
He is considered one of the first modern directors because he rehearsed his
actors with scenery and costumes for extensive periods of time, created
intricately planned crowd scenes with paid actors, and produced
historically accurate and practical settings.
, Georg II, duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Which of the following was NOT one of the revolutionary innovations of
Edwin Booth's Theatre?
it had a raked stage for wing-and-shutter scenery
Artists reacted to the radical transformation of Western society between
1875 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914 by attempting to put
realistic, everyday life onstage, and never putting illusionistic, abstract
ideas onstage.
False
Many theatregoers and critics were scandalized by realism in the theatre
because
the movement presented taboo topics such as venereal disease.
Because there were both legal and commercial barriers to producing
realistic and naturalistic drama, artists turned to
subscription companies
Motivated lighting is
illumination of the stage picture that seems to come from actual onstage
sources.
This playwright, sometime called the founder of modern realism, was
known for his early mythological plays, middle-class social-issue plays,
and late symbolist plays.
Henrik Ibsen
This playwright was a theatre critic, condemned the stale commercial
theatre of the time, wrote long prefaces discussing issues in his plays as
well as stage directions, and was known for his humor.
George Bernard Shaw
